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and the friend. The graces of his person, the irresistible 

 sweetness of his smile, the tenderness of his melodious yet 

 manly voice, will be remembered by me till every vision 

 of this changing scene shall be forgotten. 



Repeated assignations, she says, followed " at 

 this romantic spot," where now the party took 

 courage to continue their walks till past mid- 

 night. Prince Frederick and Lord Maiden, we 

 are to know, were always there to play goose- 

 berry. The lady wore a dark -coloured dress, 

 and the gentlemen were disguised in great- 

 coats, except that harum-scarum Bishop, who 

 would make his companions uneasy by showing 

 himself in an unclerical buff coat, "the most 

 conspicuous colour he could have selected for 

 an adventure of this nature." The tutors 

 having got into their nightcaps by midnight, 

 one supposes, these moonlight ramblers even 

 ventured on a little music as the food of love, 

 Frederick being the minstrel whose tones, 

 "breaking on the silence of the night, have 

 often appeared to my entranced senses like 

 more than mortal melody." It is clear that 

 Perdita does not tell the whole story. Mrs. 

 Papendiek, well up in the gossip of the back- 

 stairs, roundly asserts that two officials who 



